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- Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others… — Oliver Hazard Perry
- God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders. — Abraham Lincoln
- Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts:… — Thomas Jefferson
- To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed… — Sterling Hayden
- Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert… — Jonathan Swift
- They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have… — William Manchester
- Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war… — John Amery
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much… — Samuel Johnson
- For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the… — Robert Hooke
- The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the… — Henry Clay
- When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests… — Diogenes
- There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the… — Thomas B. Macaulay